March 20

March 20 is the 79th (seventy-ninth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 80th (eightieth) in leap years. There are 286 days left to end the year.

Events

• 235: Maximine the Trace is proclaimed Roman emperor.
• 1179: Alfonso VIII and Alfonso II, kings of Castile and Aragon, respectively, sign the Treaty of Cazola, by which both kingdoms distribute the conquest zones in al-Ándalus: Valencia, Denia and Játiva for Aragon and the rest of the Muslim territories for Castile.
• 1254: the villages of Calatayud were able to set up in Community for the privilege of James I, king of Aragon.
• 1565: Philip II, king of Spain, orders Pedro Menéndez de Avilés the conquest and conversion to the Catholic faith of the natives of the provinces of Florida.
• 1600 (Jueves Santo), in Linköping (Sweden) the Duke Carlos, future Carlos IX of Sweden, decapitates five noble opponents in what will be known as the Linköping Blood Bath, after the victory over Segismundo III Vasa.
• 1602: the Dutch Company of the East Indies is established.
• 1616: In England, King James I released Sir Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
• 1760: In Boston, a great fire destroys 349 buildings.
• 1761: In Philadelphia (United States) the first mayor, Humphrey Morrey is elected.
• 1778: At the disposal of the Spanish Crown, the territories of Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis are segregated from the Kingdom of Chile and incorporated into the Virreinato del Plata.
• 1779: Mexico concludes the aqueduct that supplies water to Mexico City from Chapultepec.
• 1786: In Sweden, King Gustavo III founded the Swedish Academy (see Nobel Prize).
• 1800: In the plain of Heliopolis (Egypt), the French—led by Kleber—sold the Turks.
• 1807: In Egypt, the British take over Alexandria, after the arrival of the army of Napoleon in Egypt.
• 1814: In Venezuela, the Battle of San Mateo is being waged near the Saracen population of San Mateo. General Simón Bolívar commands the troops that defeat the realistic headed by José Tomás Boves.
• 1814: In Chile the battle of Membrillar is waged, where the Chilean forces of Juan Mackenna manage to temporarily stop the advance of the realistic army of Gabino Gaínza towards the Chilean capital.
• 1815: In France, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris with an army of 140 000 and 200,000 volunteers; beginning the period known as the Hundred Days.
• 1821: In Portugal, the government declared Catholic Inquisition abolished.
• 1823: in Spain, the Spanish Courts—without waiting for the invasion of the French troops known as Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis— decide their transfer and that of the king from Madrid to Seville and Cadiz, in the hope that the French presence will provoke a widespread resistance movement, similar to that of 1808.
• 1852: in the USA. UU, Harriet Beecher Stowe publica Uncle Tom's cabinwhich was a great support for the cause of the emancipation of Black people.
• 1854: In the city of Ripon (Wisconsin) the Republican Party of the United States is founded.
• 1856: in the Hacienda Santa Rosa (Costa Rica), President Juan Rafael Mora Porras brings together a group of Costa Rican military personnel and throws out the country the American criminal William Walker and his filibusters.
• 1861: in the city of Mendoza (Argentina) there is an earthquake that completely destroys it.
• 1865: in Madrid, Emilio Castelar is issued by the authorship of the article "El rasgo", published in the newspaper Democracy.
• 1873: The National Republican Assembly of Spain approves the abolition of slavery on the island of Puerto Rico.
• 1878: the Salgar-Wyse Convention between Colombia and France is signed for the construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1882: in Spain the works of reconstruction of the Alcazar of Segovia begin.
• 1899: Martha M. Place becomes the first woman to be adjusted in the electric chair.
• 1906: The island of Ustica, north of Palermo (Sicilia) is devastated by an earthquake and a volcanic eruption.
• 1906: Segismundo Moret presents his resignation to the king in the full crisis of the Spanish government.
• 1907: Oudjda (Morocco) is occupied by French troops.
• 1909: in Hamburg is booted the SMS Von der Tann, the First Schlachtkreuzer (battle crusade) for the German Imperial Navy.
• 1912: in the Imperial Hall of Seville, the Spanish dancer Pastora Empire debuts with great success.
• 1913: In Greece, Constantine I is crowned king.
• 1913: In the Galgenberg is discovered a great necropolis with urns of the Bronze Age.
• 1914: in Akita, Japan, an earthquake causes 93 deaths.
• 1915: In the observatory of Barcelona, astronomer José Comas and Solá discovered the asteroid 804, baptized with the name of Hispania. It is the first asteroid discovered by Spanish scientists.
• 1915: In France—during World War I—the German zepelines bombard Paris.
• 1916: Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity
• 1918: Harlow Shapley calculates, using photometric telemetry, that the Sun is at a distance of 50 000 light years from the center of our galaxy (the Milky Way).
• 1920: In Detroit station 8 MK broadcasts the first radio news.
• 1921: In central Germany there are serious communist uprisings during the Ruhr Uprising.
• 1926: in Canton, China, Chiang Kai-shek gives a coup d'etat, thus beginning repression against the Communists.
• 1928: the civil governor of Barcelona prohibits the entry of young people under 18 years of age into the dance halls if they are not accompanied by any family member.
• 1931: war council against the leaders of the revolt of Jaca, Spain. A woman, Victoria Kent, for the first time, is involved in such an event as a defender of one of the defendants.
• 1932: the German leader Graf Zeppelin opens its regular flights to South America.
• 1933: in Florida (USA), the Italian Giuseppe Zangara is executed in the electric chair for murdering Anton Cermak in an attempt to murder President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1934: in Kiel (Germany) the first tests take place with the radar devices built by Rudolf Kunhold in 1933.
• 1942: In the framework of the Holocaust, in the city of Rohatyn (Uvano-Frankivsk district, western Ukraine), the SS kill 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of the ghetto of that city.
• 1942: As part of World War II, in Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a concentration camp and shot by the German Nazis.
• 1943: The Polish government in exile reports the murder of Jews while the ghettos were evicted.
• 1945: In the course of the Second World War, the island of Iwo Jima, defended by Japanese, remains in the hands of the Americans after the Battle of Iwo Jima, in which more than 20 000 soldiers died for each side.
• 1946: The Senate of Puerto Rico approves a bill re-establishing the use of Spanish as an official language.
• 1948: in the United States, The wiper (Italian) becomes the first non-English film winner of the Academy Award.
• 1950: The Polish Government decides to confiscate the clergy's assets.
• 1952: Annulment of the law of racial segregation by the Supreme Court of South Africa leads to a serious constitutional crisis.
• 1956: Tunisia is independent of France.
• 1956: in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, erupted the Monte Bezymianny now considered extinct volcano, considered the largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century.
• 1957: In Switzerland, the National Council gives the vote to women.
• 1962: in Argentina President Arturo Frondizi decrees the federal intervention of the provinces of Buenos Aires, Chaco, Río Negro, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán, because of the triumph in those jurisdictions of supporters of the overthrow of former president Juan Domingo Perón.
• 1964: the Spanish Council of Ministers agrees, by decree, to declare on April 1st abonable and unrecoverable national feast.
• 1964: ESRO (European Space Research Organization), European Space Agency enters into force.
• 1966: In England the Jules Rimet trophy (of the World Cup of Football) is stolen four months before its inception, during a public exhibition in the Westminster Central Hall. The trophy was found only seven days later, wrapped in newspapers at the bottom of a suburban garden in Upper Norwood (London), by a dog named Pickles.
• 1969: In Gibraltar the musician John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married.
• 1974: outside Buckingham Palace (in London), a certain Ian Ball tries unsuccessfully to kidnap Princess Anne and her husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
• 1977: In India, the opposition wins the legislative elections and Indira Gandhi resigns.
• 1980: in Mexico, the leadership of the Argentine guerrilla group Montoneros is divided and founded «Montoneros–17 de octubre»: Eduardo Astiz, Gerardo Bavio, Sylvia Bermann, Miguel Bonasso, René Cháves, Jaime Dri, Ernesto Jauretche, Pedro Orgambide, Julio Rodríguez Anido, Susana Sanz and Daniel Vaca Narvaja. They denounce that Montoneros has a "complete clausewitziano", which believes that the social struggle is a war between two conventional military forces.
• 1980: Mount Saint Helena awoke after 100 years of inactivity with a tremor of magnitude 4, 1 on a Richter scale.
• 1987: FDA (Food and Drug Administration: Food and Drug Administration) approves AZT (drug against AIDS).
• 1988: the ultra-rightwing party ARENA (Republican Nationalist Alliance), headed by Alfredo Cristiani, wins in the legislative and municipal elections held in El Salvador.
• 1990: In the Philippines, former First Lady Imelda Marcos (the widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos), is prosecuted for bribery and misuse of government funds.
• 1990: Namibia becomes a sovereign State after 75 years of colonization.
• 1991: Muere Conor Clapton, the son of guitarist Eric Clapton, after falling from the 53rd floor of a skyscraper in Manhattan. The pain caused by the loss of his son Clapton recorded one of his best songs: Tears in Heaven.
• 1992: The American rider Kenny Bernstein first exceeded 300 mph (482,803 km/h) on the finish line of a quarter mile arrancon race on the date of Gainesville of the National Hot Rod Association.
• 1993: In Russia, President Borís Yeltsin dissolves the Parliament and assumes special powers, declared unconstitutional measures three days later.
• 1994: Zine el Abidine is re-elected president of Tunisia. The Democratic Constitutional Group wins the first parliamentary elections held in this country.
• 1994: in Los Angeles, California (United States): one dead and two wounded in a 5.3-degree earthquake on the Richter scale.
• 1995: in Tokyo, Japan, members of the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas at five subway stations, killing 13 people and wounding 5510 (Stripped in Tokyo Metro).
• 1997: Spanish Justice condemns Mario Conde, former president of Banesto, six years in prison for misappropriation and falsity of business document, in relation to the "Argentia Trust case".
• 2000: the European program Get up and walk, aimed at returning mobility to paraplegics, presents its first results with a public demonstration in which three persons with disabilities, who had been implanted with an electrostimulation mechanism, put in motion their members.
• 2001: the world's largest oil platform, the Brazilian P-36, with an extension equivalent to a football field and a height of 100 meters, sinks in front of the coasts of Rio de Janeiro.
• 2003: a coalition of countries, led by the United States, invades Iraq and starts the Iraq War, which will last until 2011.
• 2004: Hundreds of thousands of people manifest themselves in the streets of the world's major cities to reject the occupation of Iraq, when one year of the beginning of the war is over.
• 2005: the city of Fukuoka (Japan) is shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 6.6. It's his greatest earthquake in a century. One person dies and hundreds are injured and evacuated.
• 2006: In eastern Australia, Hurricane Larry plays land, destroying most of the country's banana harvest.
• 2007: the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, gets the majority in the National Congress, thanks to the legitimation of 21 alternate deputies to ban the opposition to the constitutional reform.
• 2007: Iraq hangs (on the anniversary of the invasion of the country) to which it was its vice president, Taha Yasín Ramadan, who was sentenced to death for the same massacre as Saddam Hussein.
• 2012: in Mexico, an earthquake of 7.8 degrees in the seismological scale of Richter shakes the states of Guerrero, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Morelos, Veracruz, State of Mexico and Mexico City, leaving various material damage and two victims.
• 2013: release of the console Ouya.
• 2015: a total solar eclipse is seen in the northwest of the Atlantic Ocean (Spain, Portugal, etc.).
• 2016: Barack Obama visits Cuba after 88 years.
• 2020: In Argentina, the president of that nation, Alberto Ángel Fernández, decreed by a decree of necessity and urgency (DNU), the day before, that from 00:00:00 until March 31, 2020 to 23:59:59 hours there will be "Total isolation" and "Cuarentena Obligatoria" to avoid the circulation of people on the public road, and thus to avoid the spread of the coronavirus (Codentena Obligatoria). It was also decreed that whoever rapes the curfew will commit a crime.
• 2020: Nintendo launches a new game of the Animal Crossing series, titled Animal Crossing: New Horizons and appears exclusively on Nintendo Switch platforms.
• 2020: Bethesda Softworks publishes Doom Eternal, a video game from the DOOM series developed by id Software.

Births

• 43 a. C.: Ovid, Roman poet (f. 17 B.C.).
• 1469: Cecilia de York, third daughter of the 10 who had Edward IV of England (f. 1507).
• 1477: Jerome Emser, German theologian, antagonist of Martin Luther (f. 1527).
• 1482: Hippolyte of East, Archbishop and poet of religious and profane verses (f. 1520).
• 1502: Pierino Belli, soldier and Italian jurist who wrote a study on military law and war rules "De re militari et de bello" (f. 1575).
• 1612: Anne Bradstreet, the first American writer and poet of English origin to publish a book (f. 1672).
• 1615: Dara Shikoh, Indian prince (f. 1659).
• 1639: Ivan Mazepa, leader of the Cossack Hetmanate, fought to restore the political and military independence of Ukraine against Russia (f. 1709).
• 1678: Antonio Viladomat, Spanish Baroque painter (f. 1755).
• 1725: Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (f. 1789).
• 1735: Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemical (f. 1784).
• 1737: Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (f. 1809).
• 1741: Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (f. 1828).
• 1770: Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet (f. 1843).
• 1771: Heinrich Clauren, pseudonym of Karl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, German writer (f. 1854).
• 1776: Joaquín Lemoine, a Bolivian revolutionary (f. 1836).
• 1780: José Joaquín de Olmedo, lawyer, politician and Ecuadorian poet (f. 1847).
• 1791: José María de Torrijos and Uriarte, a Spanish military officer (f. 1831).
• 1800: Braulio Carrillo Colina, politician and president of Costa Rica (f. 1845).
• 1809: Nikolai Vasílievich Gógol, Russian writer of Ukrainian origin, father of Russian literature. (f. 1852).
• 1811: Napoleon II Bonaparte, son of Napoleon Bonaparte (f. 1832).
• 1811: George Caleb Bingham, American painter, theologian and jurist (f. 1879).
• 1820: Niceto de Zamacois, a Spanish writer and historian based in Mexico (f. 1885).
• 1824: Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (f. 1876).
• 1826: Augustus Wollaston Franks, British antiquarian (f. 1897).
• 1828: Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (f. 1906).
• 1831: Isabel Burton, British writer and translator (f. 1896).
• 1836: Edward Poynter, British figurative painter (f. 1919).
• 1856: Frederick Winslow Taylor, American engineer and economist (f. 1915).
• 1865: Barnabas McDonald, American philanthropist (f. 1929).
• 1870: Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German military (f. 1964).
• 1879: Maude Menten, Canadian doctor (f. 1960).
• 1881: Eugène Schueller, a French chemist, founder of L'Oreal (f. 1957).
• 1882: Rene Coty, French President (f. 1962).
• 1884: Philipp Frank, physicist, mathematician and philosopher member of the Vienna Circle (f. 1966).
• 1888: Renée Sintenis, German sculptor (f. 1965).
• 1888: Amanda Clement, first woman to arbitrate a baseball game (f. 1971).
• 1890: Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (f. 1957).
• 1890: Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (f. 1973).
• 1891: Edmund Goulding, British filmmaker (f. 1959).
• 1894: Hans Langsdorff, German naval military (f. 1939).
• 1895: Fredric Wertham, German-American psychiatrist (f. 1981).
• 1898: Luis Palés Matos, writer, novelist, Puerto Rican poet and journalist (f. 1959).
• 1904: Burrhus Frederic Skinner, an American psychologist (f. 1990).
• 1906: Abraham Beame, an American politician, mayor of New York (f. 2001).
• 1908: Frank Stanton, American businessman (f. 2006).
• 1911: Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 (f. 1991).
• 1914: Wendell Corey, American actor (f. 1968).
• 1914: Victor Matthys, Belgian politician (f. 1947).
• 1915: Sviatoslav Richter, Russian pianist (f. 1997).
• 1915: Rosetta Tharpe, the "Grandma of rock and roll" for being one of the forerunners (f. 1973).
• 1916: Pierre Messmer, French Prime Minister (f. 2007).
• 1917: Yigael Yadin, an Israeli archaeologist and politician (f. 1984).
• 1917: Vera Lynn, British singer (f. 2020).
• 1918: Belus Smawley, American basketball player and coach (f. 2003).
• 1918: Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (f. 1970).
• 1918: Marian McPartland, jazz pianist, composer and British writer (f. 2013).
• 1920: Julio Bolbochán, Argentinean chess player (f. 1996).
• 1920: Andrée Chedid, French writer (f. 2011).
• 1921: Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (f. 1970).
• 1922: Carl Reiner, actor, comedian and American filmmaker (f. 2020).
• 1924: Hermann Guggiari, Paraguayan sculptor (f. 2012).
• 1924: Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor and playwright (f. 1998).
• 1926: Enio Iommi, Argentine sculptor (f. 2013).
• 1927: Francisco Rodríguez Pascual, anthropologist and Spanish humanist (f. 2007).
• 1927: Josep Guinovart, a Spanish painter (f. 2007).
• 1927: Luis Bar Boo, Spanish actor (f. 2001).
• 1928: Inés Arredondo, Mexican writer (f. 1989).
• 1928: James P. Gordon, an American physicist known for his work in the fields of quantum optics and electronics (f. 2013)
• 1929: Jolly Land, Argentinean singer (f. 2008).
• 1929: Germán Robles, a Spanish actor and famous for being the Latin American "Vampiro" (f. 2015).
• 1930: Clara Passafari, ethnologist, anthropologist, writer and Argentine poet (f. 1994).
• 1931: Karen Steele, American model and actress (f. 1988).
• 1935: Lolita Sevilla, Spanish singer and actress (f. 2013).
• 1935: Óscar Chávez, singer, composer and Mexican actor (f. 2020).
• 1936: Lee Perry, musician and musical producer Jamaican, pioneer of the dub and reggae (f. 2021).
• 1937: Lina Morgan, Spanish actress (f. 2015).
• 1937: Lois Lowry, American child literature writer.
• 1938: Serguéi Petróvich Nóvikov, Soviet mathematician.
• 1939: Brian Mulroney, Canadian politician.
• 1939: Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist (f. 2014).
• 1940: José Manuel Otero, a Spanish jurist and writer.
• 1940: Mary Ellen Mark, American photojournalist and activist (f. 2015).
• 1942: Mijaela Tesleoanu, Romanian dancer and ballet teacher (f. 2011).
• 1943: Jaime Chávarri, actor, filmmaker and Spanish screenwriter.
• 1943: Gerard Malanga, American poet, photographer and film director and discoverer of The Velvet Underground.
• 1944: Erwin Neher, German biochemist, nobel prize of medicine in 1991.
• 1944: John Cameron, composer, arranger, director of British orchestra and pianist.
• 1945: Pat Riley, American basketball coach.
• 1945: Yula Pozo, Mexican actress.
• 1946: Alfonso Cañón, Colombian footballer.
• 1947: John Boswell, American historian (f. 1994).
• 1947: Horacio Vázquez Rial, a Spanish writer and journalist born in Argentina (f. 2012).
• 1948: José Ramón García Antón, Spanish politician (f. 2009).
• 1948: John de Lancie, American actor
• 1949: Marcia Ball, American singer, composer and pianist of blues.
• 1950: William Hurt, American actor (f. 2022).
• 1950: Carl Palmer, British musician,
• 1951: Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist.
• 1953: Luisa Kuliok, an Argentine actress.
• 1953: Alicia Kozameh, Argentine writer.
• 1954: Liana Kanelli, journalist and Greek politics.
• 1955: Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer and composer.
• 1956: Catherine Ashton, British politics.
• 1957: Spike Lee, American filmmaker.
• 1957: Theresa Russell, American actress.
• 1957: Chris Wedge, American actor and filmmaker.
• 1957: Jorge Melicio, Angolan sculptor, resident in Lisbon.
• 1958: Holly Hunter, American actress, Oscar to Best Actress in 1993 by The Piano.
• 1959: Dave Beasant, British footballer.
• 1959: Steve Sting Borden, American fighter.
• 1960: Carlos Montero, Argentine journalist.
• 1960: Norm Magnusson, American sculptor and painter.
• 1960: Norbert Pohlmann, German scientist.
• 1961: Martín Lasarte, ex-futbolist and Spanish-Uruguayan coach.
• 1961: Slim Jim Phantom, American drummer, Stray Cats.
• 1962: Stephen Sommers, American director and screenwriter.
• 1963: Paul Annacone, American tennis player.
• 1963: Yelena Románova, a Russian athlete (f. 2007).
• 1963: David Thewlis, British actor.
• 1964: Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer.
• 1965: Benito Zambrano, Spanish writer and filmmaker.
• 1965: Adrian Oxaal, American musician, guitarist of the James band
• 1966: Gert Lahousse, Belgian actor.
• 1966: Alka Yagnik, Indian singer.
• 1967: Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player.
• 1967: Yukito Kishiro, Japanese mangaka drawer.
• 1967: Ruddy Rodríguez, actress, model, singer and businessman from Venezuela.
• 1967: Xavier Beauvois, French filmmaker.
• 1967: Lili Estefan, model and presenter of Cuban-American television.
• 1968: Paul Merson, British footballer.
• 1968: A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and writer.
• 1969: Mannie Fresh, Cash Money Records Music Producer.
• 1971: Diego Bustos, Argentine journalist.
• 1972: Second Cernadas, Argentine actor.
• 1972: Alex Kapranos, British singer, of the Franz Ferdinand band.
• 1972: Pedro Lamy, Portuguese motor racing pilot.
• 1974: Carsten Ramelow, German footballer.
• 1975: Arath de la Torre, Mexican actor.
• 1976: Chester Bennington, American musician, of the Linkin Park band (f. 2017).
• 1977: Lincoln Palomeque, Colombian actor.
• 1977: Hassam, humorist, teacher and Colombian actor.
• 1977: Nelson Erazo, American fighter.
• 1977: Tor Hogne Aarøy, Norwegian footballer.
• 1978: Alejandra Oliveras, Argentine fighter.
• 1979: Silvia Abascal, Spanish actress.
• 1979: Freema Agyeman, British actress.
• 1979: Francileudo Santos, Brazilian footballer.
• 1980: Jamal Crawford, American basketball player.
• 1980: Pablo Infante, Spanish footballer.
• 1981: Radek Šírl, Czech footballer.
• 1982: Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer.
• 1982: Rory Fallon, New Zealand footballer.
• 1982: Nick Wheeler, American guitarist, of the band The All-American Rejects.
• 1982: Rene Mussi, Mexican actor.
• 1983: Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer.
• 1983: Thomas Kahlenberg, Danish footballer.

Fernando 'el Niño' Torres

• 1984: Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer.
• 1984: Christy Carlson Romano, American actress.
• 1984: Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality.
• 1985: Nicolas Lombaerts, Belgian footballer.

Ruby Rose

• 1986: Ruby Rose, model, DJ and Australian actress.
• 1986: Beñat Intxausti, Spanish cyclist.
• 1987: Fabrice Begeorgi, French footballer.
• 1988: Jakub Giersał, Polish actor.
• 1989: Anna Todd, American writer.
• 1989: Marisol Domínguez Maya, actress and youtuber francomexicana.
• 1990: Marcos Rojo, Argentine soccer player.
• 1991: Mattia Destro, Italian footballer.
• 1991: Luisito Comunica, youtuber Mexican.
• 1992: Lara Arruabarrena, Spanish tennis player.
• 1994: Joshua Brenet, Dutch footballer.
• 1994: Vita Sidorkina, Russian model.
• 1994: Derlis González, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1995: Antonio Tuivuna, a Fijian footballer.
• 1998: Antonio Moya Vega, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Hyunjin, dancer, singer and rapper of the Stray Kids group.

Deaths

• 842: Alfonso II de Asturias, king of Asturias (n. 760).
• 1191: Clemente III, Italian potato (n. 1124).
• 1239: Hermann von Salza, Teutonic Knight (n. 1179).
• 1413: Henry IV, English king between 1399 and 1413 (n. 1367).
• 1430: Alain Chartier, a French writer (n. 1390).
• 1619: Matías de Habsburg, German emperor (n. 1557).
• 1725: Samuel Fritz, a Czech missionary and cartographer (n. 1673).
• 1727: Isaac Newton, a British scientist who deduced the laws of universal gravitation. (n. 1643).
• 1746: Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (n. 1656).
• 1771: Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (n. 1707).
• 1816: Mary I, Portuguese queen (n. 1734).
• 1830: Antonio Pascual Narbona, governor of New Mexico (n. 1773).
• 1855: Joseph Aspdin, British mason and inventor (n. 1788).
• 1863: Octavio Fabricio Mossotti, Italian physicist and astronomer (n. 1791).
• 1865: Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai and general secretary of Shinsengumi (n. 1833).
• 1878: Julius Robert von Mayer, a German physician and physician (n. 1814).
• 1881: Justin Clinchant, French military (n. 1820).
• 1894: Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (n. 1802).
• 1896: Isabel Burton, British writer and translator (n. 1831).
• 1897: Apollo Máikov, Russian poet (n. 1821).
• 1914: Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian seismologist and vulcanologist (n. 1850).
• 1916: Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy taken to the United States. (n. 1884).
• 1916: Miguel Romero, Spanish poet (n. 1861).
• 1924: Fernand Cormon, a French painter (n. 1845).
• 1929: Ferdinand Foch, French military of the First World War (n. 1851).
• 1931: Hermann Müller, German chancellor (n. 1876).
• 1942: Theodoro Valcárcel, Peruvian composer (n. 1902).
• 1944: Pierre Pucheu, a French politician (n. 1899).
• 1964: Brendan Behan, Irish writer (n. 1923).
• 1968: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish filmmaker (n. 1889).
• 1968: Antonio Riquelme, Spanish actor (n. 1894).
• 1972: Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (n. 1921).
• 1975: Jaime de Borbón and Battenberg, Spanish aristocrat (n. 1908).
• 1977: Peter Houseman, British footballer (n. 1947).
• 1977: Emilio Sereni, journalist, partisan and Italian politician (n. 1907).
• 1983: Armando Soto La Marina "El Chicote" Mexican actor and comic (n. 1).
• 1988: Gil Evans, jazz pianist, arranger and Canadian composer (n. 1912).
• 1988: Greer Skousen, Mexican basketball player (n. 1916).
• 1989: Dina Sfat, Brazilian actress (n. 1939).
• 1990: Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (n. 1929).
• 1992: Georges Delerue, composer of French cinema (n. 1925).
• 1993: Polykarp Kusch, German physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1955 (n. 1911).
• 1995: Luis Saslavsky, filmmaker and Argentine writer (n. 1903).
• 1998: Agustín Gómez Arcos, writer and Spanish playwright (n. 1933).
• 2001: Dora Alonso, Cuban writer, poet and journalist (n. 1910).
• 2003: Alberto López, Argentine basketball player (n. 1926).
• 2003: Aldo Rivero, Argentine graphic humorist (n. 1938).
• 2004: Juliana of the Netherlands, aristocrat of the Netherlands (n. 1909).
• 2005: Manuel Balsera Rodríguez, Spanish mayor (n. 1919).
• 2005: Antonio Fernández Molina, poet, narrator and Spanish painter (n. 1927).
• 2008: Klaus Dinger, German musician, of the Neu band (n. 1946).
• 2009: Abdellatif Filali, Moroccan politician and prime minister between 1994 and 1998 (n. 1928).
• 2010: Mikel Scicluna, Maltese professional fighter (n. 1929).
• 2011: Néstor Adrián de Vicente, Argentine soccer player (n. 1964).
• 2011: Horacio Dener, Argentine actor (n. 1938).
• 2013: Zillur Rahman, politician and Bangladeshi president (n. 1929).
• 2013: James Herbert, British writer (n. 1943).
• 2014: Iñaki Azkuna, Spanish politician (n. 1943).
• 2015: Malcolm Fraser, Australian Prime Minister (n. 1930).
• 2016: Anker Jørgensen, Danish Prime Minister (n. 1922).
• 2017: David Rockefeller, American banker (n. 1915).
• 2020: Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor (n. 1938).

Celebrations

• French Language Day at the United Nations
• International Day of Happiness
• International Day of la Francophonie
• Costa RicaCosta Rica: Day of the Battle of Santa Rosa
• IranIran: New Year

Catholic saints list

• San Arquipo de Colosas (f. s. I).
• Saints Paul and Cyril of AntiochMartyrs.
• San Urbicio de MetzBishop (f. c. 450).
• San Martín de Braga, bishop (f. c. 579).
• San Cutberto de Lindisfarne, bishop (f. 687).
• San Vulframno de SensBishop (f. c. 700).
• St. Nice of Apolonia, bishop (f. 733).
• saints martyrs of St.monks (f. 797).
• Blessed Ambrosio Sansedonio, presbyter (f. 1287).
• Saint John Nepomuceno, priest and martyr (f. 1393).
• beato Bautista Spagnoli, priest (f. 1619).
• Blessed Juana Véron(f. 1794).
• Blessed Francis of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Palau and Quer, priest (f. 1872).
• Holy Mary Joseph of the Heart of Jesus War Sancho(f. 1912).
• beato José BilczewskiBishop (f. 1923).
• St. Claudia